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This PRV 3/4 inch 25 -75 psi doesn’t appear to have the quality of my old Watts 25 AUB. How long should I expect it to last reducing 110 psi to 50psi. It’s installed and I am already having second thoughts.

thanks I will check them out.

Thanks, I will be changing all those other lines. I foolishly thought replacing toilet lines every 5 years was a sales gimmick.Now I see how much damage can happen even when you are at home and catch it quickly, had I been away it would have been thousands of dollars in water damage replacing...

I just discovered that my home PRV has failed.Should I turn off my water until it’s fixed. I had a toilet supply line fail and it didn’t seem right. so I checked the water pressure. The pressure is 110 Psi and everything is copper pipe, The PRV valve, well out of sight out of mind. I should...

Sorry, for all the Questions. Have a nice day.

When I pressurized my COLD boiler to 25 psi and isolate it by shutting off all the valves the pressure drops to zero. In an hour it dropped about 10 psi. Why don’t I see water water dripping on the burner tubes since it’s cold? When a boiler heat exchanger leaks how does that cause the...

How do you determine the differential setting I know my aquastat choices are 5 10 20 and 30 degrees. What is the determining factor? Is there a relationship between high temperatures and low? The bigger the drop the less cycling the boiler would do, but what are the pros an cons?

I didn’t think about the different pressures, but what you say makes sense? Here’s what I did, I waited for the boiler to cool down 1, shut off power 2 closed the return valve 3 used PRV by-pass to pressurize the boiler to 25 psi 4 shut off the water supply after the PRV valve 5 after...

I placed a hose on the pipe coming out of the relief into a 5 gal bucket, this morning no water in the bucket. New expansion tank and a larger one than the old tank. I was keeping the pressure reducing valve off because I was trying to see if it was leaking or if it was indirect (water...

I have been looking for a reason for a pressure rise during heating, now I see that when the system cools the pressure goes to zero. I added another gauge to make sure. It seems to me for a system to lose pressure it must have a leak. I can see where a leak in a radiant floor system cold be...

I was surfing the net looking at plumbing sites and I couldn’t help but notice that in 25 years radiant floor systems seem to have a lot more bells and whistles. It’s like comparing Wilbur wrights plane to a Boeing 747. It was expensive back in the day, I can’t imagine the cost today.

The BOILER has taken control of the pressure. I am out of the loop. I am running it at 140 degrees. The manual does talk about the acid problem when running below 120 degrees. The boiler specialist at Fergusons told me I could run the boiler at 120 and the floor was supposed to heat the...

Radiant floor info stated I could heat the home with a temp of 120 degree. The boiler limit setting are 100 to 240 degrees. The radiant floor system was also designed to work with the boilermate water heater and the basement slant fin heaters, five 6 footers. The manual said this was no...

One nice thing about be a “jack of all trades” and master of none is that you get to do things two or three times before it works.:);):(

The by-pass comes out of the return pipe and into the supply pipe 12 inches before the circulation pump.So, it’s taking water that is 125 degrees and mixing it with the 140 degree water going to the floor zones.It just doesn’t seem to make a difference. I have thermometer tape on the pipe that...